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Anyone currently using apomorphine pumps "full time"?

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I am trying to find someone currently using apomorphine pump 20+/- hours a day. I started using my on low dosage about 8/10 hours a day, after 2.5 months told to increase 9am to 5am. Between midnight it is set to half dosage until 5am then I can remove it until 9am when it starts up again. However everyother day I have refill tank etc so means inserting another needle. Reading back on much older posts other people had the same trouble, the machine is clumbersome, awkward to wear with fashionable clothes, has left me with a very lumpy stomach. Saw my nurse last week and he says i mainly need to make sure I use it 10+ hours. All my treatment is done in Spanish, and at times I feel I'm missing the nuances of my situation. People also mentioned using an injection instead, what is that? This machine was supposed to get me off my large cocktail of meds.

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Are you massaging and gently kneading the skin at the old needle entry site after it is removed? When I trialed one; I was told that a five to ten minute massage of the area was necessary to disperse away residual medication under the skin and help prevent the bumps & lumps forming.

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